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Break On All Errors

As with some of the other panels the console panel offers a "Break On..." feature. In this case it's "Break On All Errors", which means that as soon as an error occurs the script execution is stopped.

Clear

Clears the console by removing all messages from the output.

Persist

This option prevents clearing the console when a page is reloaded. Thus all messages will stay inside the console as long as this option is enabled.

Profile

Enabling this option lets you profile JavaScript activity. For more info about this feature see the Profiling section.

Memory Profile

If extensions.firebug.memoryProfilerEnable is set to true, there's another button called Memory Profile. Enabling this option lets you profile memory activity. For more info about this feature see the Profiling section.

The Command Line is simply used for executing JavaScript commands, but is designed to support people writing code and inspecting objects. For this reason it offers several functionalities. Thereby there are some additional features available inside the Console Panel.

Command Editor

The Command Editor offers you a bigger text field for entering JavaScript commands consisting of several lines. It has an integrated menu for running the command(s), clearing the text field and copying the contents to the clipboard.

Smart paste

If you are pasting code into the command line, that consists of several lines, the command editor is automatically opened to keep the line breaks.

Console

The console offers three different functionalities. It is showing all messages Firefox' error console is showing. Furthermore it is displaying the results of the commands you entered into the command line. Last but not least it has an integrated profiler for JavaScript activities. For a detailed description of console commands see the Console API.

Message types

The console knows four different types of messages, which are described below:

See also the Console API for more information about the different commands.

Click functionality

Console messages offer you different kinds of options you can access via the mouse buttons resp. the mouse wheel. E. g. clicking on the links in an error message or warning jumps directly to the appropriate panel. Right clicking on them gives you the possibility to copy the message to the clipboard or set a breakpoint for the specific error or all errors. XML HTTP requests thereby let you copy the location or response body via the context menu. Clicking on them shows you detailed information about the request. And middle-clicking opens the requested URL in a new tab.

Profiling

The console also offers functionality to profile JavaScript activity and memory consumption information via two buttons in the Panel Toolbar. For more information please see the Profiler.